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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Isaiah 29:3-13

Here are the same, or similar denunciations, as have been before noticed. God's judgments for men's rebellion. And what makes the whole most awful, is, that those judgments and punishments remain unsanctified. The people did indeed, when the Lord's afflictions were upon them, call upon the Lord; but it was in form only, not in heart. Lip service, not soul affection, constituted the whole of their religion. Reader! look narrowly over your own heart, under this particular: rottenness begins there. Ezekiel 33:30; Jeremiah 12:2; Matthew 15:8.

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See also Isaiah 29:3-13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 29:3. _AND I WILL CAMP AGAINST THEE ROUND ABOUT_ - "And I will encamp against thee like David"] For כדור _caddur_, some kind of military engine, כדוד _kedavid, like David_, is the reading...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND I WILL CAMP AGAINST THEE - That is, I will cause an army to pitch their tents there for a siege. God regards the armies which he would employ as under his control, and speaks of them as if he woul...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 29 The Second Woe Against Ariel and the Third Woe 1. _The fall of Ariel (Jerusalem) predicted (Isaiah 29:1)_ 2. _Their enemies dealt with by Jehovah (Isaiah 29:5)_ 3. The people's condition:...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 29. THE DOOM OF ARIEL. Possibly Isaiah 29:7 f., with most of Isaiah 29:5, is an insertion to turn a prophecy of judgment into one of mercy. Isaiah 29:1 is then a prophecy of ruin to Jerusalem,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 29:1-14. The announcement of Jehovah's wonderful purpose regarding Jerusalem, and its reception on the part of the people Under the second "Woe" (Isaiah 29:1) are grouped two oracles, which ma...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The humiliation and distress of Ariel, at the hands of the Assyrians....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _I will camp against thee round about_ see Isaiah 29:1. LXX. carries the parallel still further by reading "I will encamp … _like David_," a reading which would be plausible if "against which" could b...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND I WILL CAMP, &C.— This second article explains the former. The prophet had said that Jerusalem should be straitened and distressed; which he here expresses plainly, Isaiah 29:3 declaring that the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. SUCCESS TEXT: Isaiah 29:1-8 1 Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye year to year; let the feasts come round: 2 then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lame...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. I - Yahweh, acting through the Assyrian, etc., my instruments (Isaiah 1...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    29:3 watch-posts, (d-16) Or 'war-engines.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WARNINGS TO JUDAH These Chapter s refer to the state of affairs during the reign of Hezekiah, when Palestine was threatened by Assyria, and an influential party in Judah favoured resistance, relying...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WILL ENCAMP AGAINST THEE... — The words describe the strategy of an Eastern siege, as we see it in the Assyrian sculptures — the mound raised against the walls of the city, the battering-ram placed...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ חָנִ֥יתִי כַ † דּ֖וּר עָלָ֑יִךְ וְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ------------...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is the first of a series of declamations concerning the chosen people, and sets forth the purpose of Jehovah in judgment. The message opens with a description of the judgment (verses Isa 29:1-4),...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Circle. Thus provisions were cut off. (Calmet)_...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _JERUSALEM’S IMPENDING HUMILIATION AND DELIVERANCE_ ‘Woe to Ariel,’ etc. Isaiah 29:1 I. THE PROPHET SETS FORTH IN Isaiah 29:1 THE THEME OF HIS DISCOURSE.—For he announces to Ariel, i.e. to the city...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    3._And I will camp against thee round about. _By the word כדור (_kāddūr_) (257) he alludes to the roundness of a ball; and the expression corresponds to one commonly used, (“Je l’environneray,”) “I sh...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Jerusalem is reduced to the last extremity. But this time Jehovah appears for her deliverance, and the multitude of her enemies disappear as a dream of the night. Everything is dark and gloomy as to t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I WILL CAMP AGAINST THEE ROUND ABOUT,.... Or as a "ball" or "globe" o; a camp all around; the Lord is said to do that which the enemy should do, because it was by his will, and according to his or...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. Ver. 3. _And I will camp against thee round about._] I will bring the woe...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And I will camp against thee_, &c. That is, by those enemies whom I will assist and enable to take and destroy thee. The prophet may here refer to different sieges of Jerusalem, that of Sennacherib,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I will camp against thee round about, the enemies carrying out His plans in their siege of the city, AND WILL LAY SIEGE AGAINST THEE WITH A MOUNT, with fortifications fully manned, every soldier d...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WOE UPON ARIEL...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 Ariel may signify the altar of burnt-offerings. Let Jerusalem know that outward religious services will not make men free from judgements. Hypocrites never can please God, nor make their peace wi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    By those enemies whom I will assist and enable to destroy thee. This was fulfilled either, 1. By Sennacherib, as some learned men think. But what is here affirmed of these enemies is expressly denied...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 29:3 encamp H2583 (H8804) around H1754 siege H6696 (H8804) mound H4674 raise H6965 (H8689) siegeworks...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And I will encamp against you in a circle (literally ‘like a circular object' surrounding the city), And will lay siege against you with a fort, And I will raise siegeworks against you. And you wi...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    AND I WILL CAMP Here, as often in prophecy, and especially in Isaiah, the near and far horizons blend. The near view is of Sennacherib's invasion and the destruction of the Assyrian host by the angel...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warnings to Judah and Jerusalem of impending discipline. The blessing after the final deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Those who are formal and hypocritical in the...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 29:1. _Woe to Ariel,_ the lion of God, or the strong lion, for _El_ is often rendered _strong_ or _rock,_ as in Psalms 42:9. “God my rock.” The city of Jerusalem was that strong rock, or strong...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 29:1 A WARNING TO JERUSALEM. Expostulation is followed by threats. The prophet is aware that all his preaching to the authorities in Jerusalem (Isaiah 28:14) will be of no avail, an...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 29, the woe unto Jerusalem. Ariel means the lion of God. It is one of the names for Jerusalem. Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, [the lion of God] the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 18:17; 2 Kings 19:32; 2 Kings 24:11; 2 Kings 24:12; 2

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